What is the political value of time and where does that value reside Should politics place its hope in future possibility or does that simply defer action in the present Can the present ground a vision of change or is it too circumscribed by the status quo ampampnbsp In Qualified Hope A Postmodern Politics of Time Mitchum Huehls contends that conventional treatments of times relationship to politics are limited by a focus on realworld experiences of time. By contrast the innovative literary forms developed by authors in direct response to political events such as the Cold War globalization the emergence of identity politics and 911 offer readers uniquely literary experiences of time. And it is in these literary experiences of time that Qualified Hope identifies more complicatedand thus more productiveways to think about the timepolitics relationship. ampampnbsp Qualified Hope challenges the conventional characterization of postmodernism as a period in which authors reject time in favor of space as the primary category for organizing experience and knowledge. And by identifying a common commitment to time at the heart of postmodern literature Huehls suggests that the perioddefining divide between multiculturalism and theory is not as stark as previously thought. ampampnbsp ampampnbsp